Studio 309 is a fully operational interactive research and illustration media agency offering required research resources to international academic research students and organisations within and out side of South Africa. We are a hard working and reliable team with a dedication to excellence, quality, and timeliness, we always ready, willing, and able to help in any way we can.

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RELIABLE ACADEMIC RESEARCH GROUPS

We scout, represent and provide reliable Prescreened academic Research Participants , Study tour guides, Research assistants, Interpreters and transcribers if needed in any study area . To join our research groups, assisting team or other projects, Please scroll down to the contacts and FAQ section for more details / contact us via email, phone or make appointment to visit our office .

WE BUY BACKGROUND / AMBIENT SOUNDS

Capture and sale any ambient space or background sounds around you, audio can be recorded at any duration, spaces or locations with a cell phone or any audio recorder, We shall also be offering training on basic field sound recording by our studios for anyone interested in learning more about ambient sound recording and production if necessary.

A. For several reasons (naturally!):• Research participants are often compensated with money, gift cards, electronics,sponsorship and more.• Travelling. Some research surveys may require a participant, Assistant or guide to travel in different placeslocally or abroad for either follow-up studies or just a researcher’s friendly invitation which is fun ,this will help you connect with different people and cultures.• You'll be contributing to academic research that improves things for you! Researchers areoften requesting your input, ideas, and feelings on things that you use- to make them better, or tocreate new and innovative projects, products, and classes. In the process you learn and developyourself and others.• Applying is free, and you get paid or compensated for your time• Time convenience. Most research work can be done flexibly in your free time or at home.

Q. HOW DO I GET PAID?

A. Doing your part to assist academic researchers or organisations by participating in research studies takes time and energy, so we feel that you should be paid or compensated for this. The amount ortype of payment for your participation in any research studies should be clearly detailed in allparticipation requests or briefs sent to you, and it's up to you if it's worthwhile to participate.Payments to participants are made directly to research participants (you) by researchers. Payments are not made by studio 309; however we do strongly encourage researchers to compensate all research participants. Pay for your participation is typically in the form of cash payments, however researchers often enrol participants in contests- selecting some lucky individuals for things such as:tablets, gift cards, and other assorted items. Universities, research organisations and private or individual donors fund some research surveys. While in some research surveys, graduate students often pay out of pocket for their research expenses, so try to help them outregardless of compensation. It’s a research participant’s right to bailout of any research at any time.In order to avoid misunderstandings or jeopardizing of any research surveys, we encourage all research participants to ask as many questions as they can before participating in any research project. If you have no interest in the study. You can still pass on the information to anyone who you think might be eligible to participate. Your time and effort to pass on the information will be compensated depending on response and number of participants taken from your referral. Contact studio 309 for more details on referral -compensation and bonuses.

Q. HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO JOIN STUDIO 309?

A. R0.00. It's completely free to join.

Q. WHAT WILL I HAVE TO DO TO PARTICIPATE OR ASSIST IN STUDIES AVAILABLE?

A. Many research studies ask participants to complete simple surveys, interviews or a well-explainedresearch exercise taking anywhere from a few minutes to an hour, some research studies are moreinvolved and may take weeks, months to years. The kinds of studies you'll be asked to participate invary; we ask that academic researchers be as clear as possible with their research work on anysubject, we also encourage research participants to inquire as many questions as possible tounderstand all the necessary details before participating or assisting with any research work.Currently Studio 309 can only work with participants around Gauteng and some parts of Limpopo,Mpumalanga and Free State; hopefully in the nearby future, we shall extend our work to otherprovinces. We shall only prefer to work with honest, respectful, flexible, open and free spiritedpeople who believe in working, developing and learning from each other as a team. All in all, Studio309 wishes to work with everyone open to work with. N.B. We shall prefer to work with people weknow face to face not via the internet or phone calls. We can’t book you for work, just because yousent your application via internet.

Q. CAN STUDIO 309 SHARE DETAILS OF PREVIOUS COMPLETED RESEARCH PROJECTS WITH OTHERPARTIES NOT INVOLVED IN THE RESEARCH?

A. No. Studio 309 signs a confidentiality agreement with most of our clients, we agree to not discloseparticular details with most of the research projects we are involved as a company. This means as acompany we have no legal right to share any details or documentations about any research workwithout the permission of the researcher and the involved research participants.

Q. HOW CAN I FIND STUDIO 309 OFFICES?

A. Currently our studios are located at Blue valley Golf and country estate Midrand. Sms orwhatsapp, for a detailed google map, or directions depending on your means of transport.

Q. HOW OFTEN DO I GET WORK AFTER SUBMITTING MY APPLICATION?

A. As long as man is still seeking knowledge to develop, there will always be research. In this caseanyone is free to apply at any time.NB. It's important to us - and to the researchers who engage us - that you remain a genuine'member of the public' rather than becoming a research group expert. Our clients are only interestedin real people, who can add real value to their research either as an assistant, guide or participant.Join our team if you fully understand and love our working environment. Some people may get workas soon as they submit their applications, for some it may take some time to get work hencefrustrating sometimes .We know how it feels to apply for anything and not get selected. Please alsolook at our other projects on the last page that may be of help in case everything hasn’t beenworking your way. Besides being a research agency, Studio 309 has been lucky enough to meet anumber of generous and good friends who are willing to support some of our reach out projects withthe aim of developing or helping anyone in need of assistance or help .With a few donations we areputting up programs and small projects to engage and help everyone as much as we can. In the meantime let’s try to explain why some people get more work than others.EligibilityEvery project that we recruit for comes with a set of eligibility criteria – whether for guides,Participants or research assistants, sometimes wide open, sometimes very restricted. For examplewe might be asked for ‘Men aged 20-40 who drink tea every morning’ – or our client, for whateverreason, might require ‘Pregnant Women aged 20-40 who drink beer and smoke cigarettes, for aqualitative research on why do they smoke and drink during pregnancy , how do they feel about thisact , what’s the effect. This observation may take a few hours, a day or the all pregnancy period, evenafter the pregnancy period if necessary.’ EtcWhen we get a specification like the latter, we have to ask a lot of open questions – This helps tokeep our selection process credible and robust. The point is, you cannot know what our client islooking for when you complete the form, as it is our job to obscure the 'right' answer, to recruit theproject accurately. It’s also important to point out that all these criteria are specified by our clients inevery case. Studio 309 does not have the discretion to alter or amend them, even if it would makeour lives a lot easier if we could... Our job is to recruit people who precisely meet the profile theresearcher has given us. Same applies with compensation or payment with your work, Studio 309does not determine how much you are being paid, if you find the payments less or not fitting yourdemands, we advise you not to join the project.Over subscriptionThe other reason you might not get into a research is that the group simply fills too fast. Obviously inan ideal world we aim to invite exactly the right number of people to apply for any given project –.However, we have to make a judgment taking into account how many will be eligible, how quicklypeople will respond (when we are recruiting at very short notice we have to invite more people, assome people still don’t read their email for days), and how easy it will be to ring people back andbook them. And whilst we always try to keep disappointments to a minimum, we have to overrather than underestimate volumes to be sure of filling our groups. This does inevitably mean that afew perfectly eligible people get disappointed on every job, it’s something that we regret and do allwe can to minimize, but can see no way of avoiding. Unfortunately it can also mean you don't get the'thanks but no thanks' message till the last minute, as we have to wait until the group is completed,and confirmed (with no-one dropping out on us), before we can tell everyone else they are notrequired. Of course, if you haven't heard from us until a day or maximum a week or 2 depending onthe description of the project. you can probably assume you haven't been selected, and if we dohave to make an emergency call-around due to cancellations we fully expect most people to havemade other plans. If this is the case for you it WON'T affect your likelihood of receiving futureinvitations (only no-showing a group does that), we quite understand that our members have livesand other commitments - another reason we always have to overestimate numbers for invitesslightly.

Q. SO WHEN WILL I GET PICKED?

A. There is no single answer to this question; however here are a few suggestions that may make iteasy for you to always be selected...• Respond as quickly as possible. The earliest responses are more likely to get booked, as wetend to start work on booking as early as possible.• Be easy to get hold of. Even if you are first on the list, if we call you and can’t speak to you,we cannot book you. If there are loads of eligible responses we won’t usually leave a message, wewill simply work on and try to fill the group. And if we do leave a message, it doesn’t mean that weare able to hold a place in the group for you, so if you are still available for it do get back to us fast! IfpossiblePlease take heart if you haven’t yet been selected, we know it must be really frustrating, but we tryvery hard to keep everyone updated with any of our current studies , We also encourage you to joinany projects available that may be of help .